Fear? Greed? Old-fashioned incompetence? Pick a card, any card, and you'll land on the joker that is the NCAA. The organization's ludicrous half-game suspension of Texas A&M superstar Johnny Manziel is merely its latest attempt at sleight-of-hand.

I think enough is enough! No one found any evidence against this kid. He has made mistakes & needs to grow up but what 20 year old doesn't. The only reason the media won't leave him alone is because he won the Heisman. I also think this was started by some team that doesn't want to play against him. Why can't people just leave him alone & let him play his college football!

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood likes Houston's light rail that's up and running but warns that regional transit officials have squandered opportunities the past decade by not building greater consensus.

Houston just needs politicians and leaders that can think on a larger scale. I'll bet the people sitting on I-45 or 290 every rush hour would love to be sitting on a train as opposed to a 90 minute commute to go 25 miles. Stop building wider roads and highways and convert the underutilized HOV lanes to rail tracks. We already have the park and rides all over the burbs. Commuters can still park there and hop on a train that goes up and down the HOV's. It's really not that difficult. Cities a lot smaller than Houston make it work just fine.

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Once a town that could strike terror in the heart of the chilliest plutocrat, Hallettsville on Sunday tamely celebrated the Labor Day holiday with a church picnic featuring fried chicken, onion butter potatoes and green beans.

The "Socialist utopia" never came because it doesn't exist. Point anywhere on earth it has worked or is now working. You won't find it.

NASA says it's going places, that its plan to develop a new space capsule and rocket will take human astronauts places they've never been before - asteroids and eventually Mars. But many former NASA officials are deeply skeptical about the plan espoused by the space agency, at the direction of the Obama administration. Among the critics is the legendary Chris Kraft, NASA's first manned spaceflight director, for whom Mission Control at Johnson Space Center is named.

Mr. Kraft hits it on the head, again. You always could count on a straight answer from Flight.

I'm not understanding the dig at Obama in your preface. The SLS was DEMANDED by Congress, not the administration. It's been forced on NASA and the administration is simply trying to find something to do with it. The asteroid idea is about the only thing you can do that might possibly be achieved. There will be no money for a Moon lander, no money for trans-Mars life support development or a lander there, either. Flying the thing a bit father out is space and racing back home is going to be the best that can be done, assuming Congress is foolish enough to demand that NASA finish this white elephant.